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Turkish 'm0sted' hackers infiltrated U.S. Army servers

Friday, May 29, 2009

Turkish hackers calling themselves m0sted were able to break into a U.S. Army server in January and previously hacked a server for the Army Corps of Engineers, according to InformationWeek.

Hackers used an SQL injection attack to exploit a security vulnerability in Microsoft's SQL Server database, according to officials cited in the report.

The hacked servers were at the McAlister Ammunition Plant in Oklahoma and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Transatlantic Center in Virginia.

Visitors to the McAlister plant's website on January 26th were redirected to a website containing messages protesting climate change. In September 2007, a similar attack on the Army Corps of Engineers redirected visitors to www.m0sted.net, which contained anti-American and anti-Israeli messages and images, InformationWeek reported.

The U.S. Department of Defense, which has reportedly been considering implementing a cybercommand to coordinate IT security and cyberwarfare, subpoenaed records from Google, Microsoft and Yahoo to track the identities of the hackers.

In August 2007, m0sted hacked a United Nations website to post a message that said "Hacked By Kerem125 m0sted and Gsy," according to reports. "That is CyberProtest Hey Ysrail and Usa dont kill children and other people Peace for ever No war."
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